Not 1 but 2 woolly discoveries
LA CROSSE, WIS. — Gary Kidd had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock but the tooth of a woolly mammoth. He had found one himself nine years ago.
Kaleb Kidd was chasing squirrels Monday at a family friend’s property near La Crosse when he spotted what looked like an unusual rock. “Grandpa, what’s that?” Kaleb asked. Gary Kidd told his grandson it looked like a tooth of the extinct woolly mammoth. Next stop was the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, which confirmed that it was the tooth of a mammoth. The center’s lab director said it could be 10,000 to 30,000 years old. It weighs 2 pounds and is 6 inches long.
The latest find is in better shape than the one Gary Kidd brought up from the bottom of the Mississippi River in 1998.
The Associated Press
